The corpus record — Latin

absentia

absentia · f

absence

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Vita Iulii Agricolae 2 · 2.97/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 2 · 2.96/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 2 · 1.84/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 7 · 1.51/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 5 · 1.14/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 2 · 0.88/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

absentĭa — Lewis & Short

absentĭa, ae, f.absum,

I absence: confer absentiam tuam cum meā, Cic. Pis. 16, 37; Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 14, 13, A; Quint. 4, 2, 70; Tac. A. 4, 64 al.: testimoniorum, want of, Quint. 5, 7, 1.

In the wild

absentia Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.29
absentiae Tacitus, Annales 4.p64
absentiam Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 44
absentia Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 4.2.70
absentia Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.7.1
absentiae Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 60.7

6 of 65 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.